Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It is great leveraging the cloud to build something, whether that’s a globally distributed website with...
2023-06-28 (first published: 2023-06-08)
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We all would like to save money when operating in the cloud, Microsoft has released a stop / start concept for SQL Managed Instances – preview mode! At the...
2023-01-12
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This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight – If anyone does want my feedback on what I like and don’t like about...
2022-11-25
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Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...
2022-11-11
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Rarely do I say I love a feature across any technologies I have come across, in the snowflake world this is right up there. I tend to find this...
2022-10-27
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Snowflake does a great job on documenting the key pair process using bash for Linux environments. That’s great, but what if you need to work within a windows environment...
2022-10-12
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Everyone has heard of scaling up and scaling out compute. Have you ever heard about a term called scaling across? Before Snowflake, I never. Scaling up and down is...
2022-10-11
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Whatever your database background is you will have heard of an execution / explain plan. Snowflake is no different. Coming from a MS SQL background I was used to...
2022-09-23
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Now let’s start the process of creating a snowflake account in the Azure Cloud. You can sign up for a free trial from here – https://signup.snowflake.com/ I am going...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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At the most basic level, Snowflake has 3 important components. The Cloud services layer, centralised storage layer and the compute layer. Cloud services – they call this the “brains”...
2022-07-19
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By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers